The Local Transportation Association held a protest about Bali online taxis to the DPRD
The Local Transportation Association held a protest about Bali online taxis to the DPRD
Bali is an area that relies on tourism. After the erosion of agricultural land and many Balinese people turned to tourism even without the ability to speak English.
Tourism is like a gold mine for local Balinese people, but what is happening now is that Bali is actually a tourist destination, the population, especially young people, are leaving to look for work amidst the progress of Bali tourism...how is that possible?
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The competition in the Bali area is getting crazier. Many Indonesians invade Bali to look for work, resulting in unhealthy competition in Bali in the tourism sector. both transportation and Balinese labor. Elements that support tourism such as hotels, spas, etc.
Most of them consider choosing workers from outside Bali to fill their vacancies for various reasons, one of which is that the salaries they pay are relatively cheap and they think that there are too many Balinese people. their traditional activities (as long as they can be coordinated should not be a problem) so that many Balinese cannot survive in their homeland where tourism is booming.
Isn't it that Balinese people are lazy or not, we Balinese people sometimes put out application letters at all establishments, hotels, spas and so on, but don't expect to get a call, even though the education is sky high, even if the salary offered is very low because people from other areas dare to take it.
even lower. so that today's young people are targeting working abroad with a more humane income level.
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Factor II is also due to the fact that there are many drivers from outside Bali who work in Bali and even minimal prices are not a problem for them without taking into account the costs of repairing vehicles, replacing spare parts and so on which makes local residents nervous.
If the government does not limit it, there will be more unemployment in Bali and people Bali is only a spectator in its own region.
amidst the onslaught of paying car tax in Bali, living necessities and so on. Now many cars from outside Bali are coming to Bali and destroying the transportation market share in Bali and also causing lots of traffic jams everywhere.
Below is one of the sources of news in Bali that we have summarized.
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In their speeches, local tourism drivers felt disadvantaged by the large number of online taxis operating in Bali, without any restrictions such as the obligation to recruit local drivers.
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Chairman of the Bali Driver Struggle Forum, I Made Darma Yasa, explained that there were a number of demands in this action, apart from restrictions on online transportation and the obligation to recruit local drivers, local drivers also asked the government to standardize rates for special rental transportation so that there would be no price wars that would be detrimental to drivers. local driver.
They also asked for standardization in recruiting drivers from outside Bali. According to Darma Yasa, free competition in the transportation business, especially tourism transportation, is detrimental to local drivers and local transportation businesses, according to him, local transportation businesses always lose out to foreign entrepreneurs operating in Bali. “Bali is like sugar, so lots of ants come.
"So far (in the transportation sector) we have been robbed by capitalists who have large capital," explained Darma Yasa, Monday (6/12/2024). Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Bali DPRD, Dewa Made Mahayadnya, who received the demonstrators, explained that he accepted the aspirations of the tourism drivers.
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There are five proposals submitted by the Bali DPRD to the masses to overcome the problem of tourism transportation governance in Bali. The first is to ensure that the Bali Governor's Regulation (Pergub) Number 40 of 2019 concerning application-based special rental transportation services in Bali Province runs as it should and its enforcement continues to be improved continuously. consistent.
There are lots of online taxis with cheap prices which are killing Balinese income. So many tourists choose online taxis, leaving many local people unemployed.
Second, encourage Bali Governor Regulation Number 40 of 2019 concerning application-based special rental transportation services in Bali Province to be upgraded to a Regional Regulation (Perda), so that it has higher and stronger legal force and there are sanctions if there are violations.
"In this case, it is hoped that the Bali Tourism Driver Struggle Forum will also provide suggestions and contribute to the drafting of the regional regulation so that it can truly protect the interests of the community, especially Bali tourism drivers," explained Mahayadnya.
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The DPR will also ask the Bali Provincial Government to prepare a call center regarding the management of application-based tourism or special transportation so that drivers can directly report things that do not comply with the regulations or violations in implementation so that the Bali Provincial Government can take action through the Satpol PP or the Police.
This politician from Buleleng also encouraged and ensured that drivers of special rental wheeled vehicles and tourist transport operating in the Bali Province area were people who had ID cards and were domiciled in Bali.
"In the process of forming regional regulations, you are asked to be willing to provide input to the chairman of the Special Committee that we have gathered, regarding the Regional Regulations that we will later supervise and need to be studied because there are regulations on them. "I think the regional regulations will be entitled overall transportation modes, so they will no longer be specific," he explained.
This article was published on Bisnis.com with the title "Bali Tourism Driver Community Requests Restriction of Online Transportation",
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